Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
Finley Peter Dunne
We have a huge pack that runs within 20 seconds of one another, it's just a question of where we are in relation to other teams.
Dave Curtis
I expect that on Wednesday we will be asking people to inform the inquiry as to whether they have any wish to examine the prime minister in relation to his statement.
John Agius
The thinking behind our study was we know depression exists in fathers. We know PPD impairs the mother-child relation in a way that is ... (damaging) for the child. So, was that also the case with dad?
Thomas O'connor
I was quite pleased with how we did. We did better than I expected in relation to Harvard.
John Beski
We're not going to speak about litigation. I don't want to comment on anything in relation to this case. That's for the courts.
Debbie Wing
The struggle between the local power brokers and satraps and the president is the invisible real politics, ... are preoccupied with elections, the relation between the president and the parliament.
Frederick Starr
Companies who are using celebrities in relation to endorsement with any food will have to take a great deal of care around those issues.
Hilary Souter
We seek a peaceful relation with the United States, a cooperative relation, an equal relation.
Ahmed Ibrahim
I know the prime minister is in full agreement with the action we have taken so far in relation to the railways and ... he wants me to get on with the job to improve the railway system.
Stephen Byers
We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply 'inside myself'. Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely 'outside myself'.
Carter Heyward
I did think of it, I really did. But I just didn't think we had a good 2-point play, and Furman had a lot of momentum going into overtime. I didn't feel really good about what were doing offensively in relation to their defense.
Kevin Higgins
This research suggests that we're understanding different parts of the brain in relation to decision-making and emotions.
Paul Sanberg
That's such a morale booster. It's really great to overcome that mark, and the sky's the limit for us now in relation to how many wins we can achieve this season.
Lindsay Sawyer
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Gilbert Highet
We anticipate additional arrests in relation to the theft as the investigation continues.
Tom Mangan
We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.
John Howard Payne
There's a significant lack of equivalents in relation to civil partnership and partnership rights for gay people.
Niall Crowley
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's.
Andrei Codrescu
The government opts for retribution against the only person it has brought to trial in relation to 9/11.
Gerald Zerkin
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
Ashley Montague
We do devote the same level of resources to murders in relation to their difficulty. What the difference is, is how these are reported. I actually believe the media is guilty of institutional racism in the way they report deaths.
Sir Ian Blair
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio
The inter-relation of these markets is such that if Europe goes down by the extent it has, the U.S. is going to be affected.
Charles Diebel
We don't want to define our policies in relation to the club's music, dress code or face control. As soon as a person defines a certain thing then he or she loses his or her interest in this thing.
Alexei Haas
I like thinking about the challenge of this one day in relation to the challenges they face every day in their lives. We can challenge ourselves just this one day.
Thomas Ihde
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
Mark Poster
The line has got to be drawn in relation to things that might cause acts of terrorism; it's not necessarily a proven link - if the risk is high enough.
Lord Falconer
Prices are where they ought to be in relation to the price of crude oil. There may be some more movement up or down, but we don't expect it to do much more than where it is now over the next month or two.
Mike Burdette
There is some uncertainty about what costs are actually going to come through in the first half in relation to the depreciation charges, redundancies etcetera because there has been pretty big material changes since September.
Richard Long
Many people say, 'I don't have to go to church to be a Christian,' without considering fellowship in relation to their continued spiritual growth. In the New Testament coming together is emphasized. Over and over we find the passages saying to love one another, encourage one another and comfort each other.
Kelly Sloan
These events started when people were endeavoring to place pressure on us in relation to those matters.
Philip Ruddock
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This case is about politics, political opinion and the role of the heir to the throne in relation to these issues.
Mark Warby
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
Leonard Bernstein
We don't know what the relation is at this point in time. We're still investigating it and following up on leads that have come in.
Anthony Flores
The individual was arrested and charged after an investigation that had gone on for some weeks, in relation to allegations that are 30 years old. The allegations and the charges now relate to incidents that are believed to involve two young children.
Mark Giles
This offer would be a conditional offer which would enable other WTO members to make further moves in relation to agriculture, industrial goods and services.
Peter Power
When you look at the price of each CD, the fines are way out of perspective in relation to the crime.
Paul Phillips
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
Anthony Burgess
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
Frederick Wiseman
China's development in the field of manned spacecraft has no relation with any 'military threat'.
Hiroyuki Hosoda
The trend is improving with relation to safety on the trails.
Wendy Gibson
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Louis Aragon
It's a close relation. In the regions, where they had the votes, they are regions in which they were the only ones who could campaign.
Mauricio Romero
The market's performance is a reflection of uncertainties over the energy rationing, and in relation to the hike in interest rates.
Luiz Marcos Prudencio
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
Paul Twitchell
This type of data can be political, because aid is given in relation to real gross domestic product per capita. Some countries want to look poorer than they are.
Robert Feenstra
Anything is possible and all avenues will be looked at by the police in relation to this investigation.
Andrew Kerr
The commission's relation with the Syrian authorities has been marked by conflicting signals. This has caused confusion and delays.
Detlev Mehlis
This is a first. Nowhere else in the world has there been an exhibition showing the relation between Picasso's work and African art.
Marilyn Martin
In relation to existing charities (such as the Foundation for Community Care), a community endowment is like the third leg of the support stool. A community endowment benefits existing charities. They are, in fact, complimentary to one another.
Linda Reed
Recovery will be slow because so many investors have been hit by what has happened over the past few months in relation to Russia...that they are going to be wary about coming back in despite there being obvious bargain basement prices.
Chris Portman
Given the linear dose-response relation between alcohol intake and risk of cancer, control of heavy drinking remains the main target for cancer control.
Dr Paolo Boffetta
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting: Of such tenacity his grip Tha.
Ambrose Bierce
We don't want to have anything to do with her in relation to that movie.
Jim Hopson
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Benedict Spinoza
The combination of Siebel applications with the development capacity of Oracle to enhance our (client relation management) product set ... is a very beneficial business combination that will allow us to be even more effective in delivering high quality, leading edge solutions.
Thomas Siebel
What I think is going to happen is that tests in relation to reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way is going to be blurred with those concepts of procedural fairness and what you're going to find is the QIRC considering appeals against decisions to grant workers compensation to dismissed employees where the employee was denied procedural fairness.
John Dwyer
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau
The club has no policy in relation to where players go on holidays.
Michael Bowers
The breakdown of the Boomers into two groups proved to deliver some very interesting results. There are distinct differences between those aged 40-49 and 50-60 years old with relation to the timing, activities and money needed for retirement.
Peter Hooper
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Glenn said it wasn't appropriate timing in relation to family matters.
Warren Craig
Our Velma Kelly is Jill Kelly - no relation - of Fort Wayne.
Joe Barton
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Nelson Rockefeller
The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
Helmut Kohl
Mix it up. Don't stand in precisely the same spot - in relation to the mirror and the fan - every time. Sometimes that helps to shake it up.
Lynn Solomon
We firmly believe this is a significant step forward. We can attempt to move forward and attempt to enact legislation as has been done in our neighboring states in relation to slot machines.
John Davey
What lays the social foundation for the bilateral relation is to strengthen communications, promote understanding and friendship between two peoples.
Qian Qichen
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.
Wallace Shawn
REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
Ambrose Bierce
There are a number of issues that you have to think about in relation to the spatial politics of a city when thinking about ward politics in a city.
Corey Walker
We conveyed to President Clinton our acceptance in principle to the proposal ... with our own explanations and interpretations of those proposals in relation to all the issues.
Abdel Rahman
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone
When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.
Mike Hooper
We're like a little family. I call them my cousins even though we have no relation. But we're really close.
Shanice Billington
It becomes, therefore, the most important of all considerations with what character we invest in the Universal Mind; for since our relation to it is purely subjective it will infallibly bear to us exactly that character which we impress upon it; in other words it will be to us exactly what we believe it to be.
Thomas Troward
Reduce the doubt in relation to our economy and create the conditions to lower interest rates.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
These elements are critically important in relation to feeding horses.
Russell Lewis
You have somebody who is a fit natural parent and somebody who claims that they should have rights to a child, even though they do not have any legal relation to the child either by blood or marriage.
Frank Mylar
It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world.
Seymour Papert
Every time that some papers get the opportunity they go for a bust-up story between Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane even though there may be no truth in it. In relation to this story, there is no truth whatsoever that I had a bust-up with Roy or any of the other players.
Brian Kerr
The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.
Bruce Douglas
Salaries used to be a fairly secretive issue between the employer and the employee, but now there is far more information available and it is easier to find out what people are paid. But the way people are paid has become far more complicated as it is not just a direct relation to the money they take home.
Andrew Walker
The coincidences are high. He had a history of role play in relation to other films.
Dr. John Talbott
Business confidence has not advanced in France for three months and the gap in relation to Germany is growing.
Olivier Gasnier
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
Albert Schweitzer
The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
Marcel Proust
Budget and Finance has broad authority with relation to financial matters.
Frank Seanez
A relation to the current destabilization moves in the country.
Raul Gonzalez
I have heard from reliable sources that the government intends to indict eight former partners of KPMG in relation to their involvement in alleged tax shelters.
Robert Fink
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James Fenimore Cooper
What is so sick is how the charges bear no relation to the costs of care.
Richard Kirsch
We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.
John Harper
YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you under-stand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.
Barry Long
He's stopped apologizing and is talking about what ought to be. And whether or not that's sufficient for some Jewish critics, it's extraordinarily powerful and consistent with the very best of what he's tried to do in relation to the Jews.
David Van Biema
Faith is more complex than belief. It involves an individual's relation to a community and engagement with ideas that are larger than the self.
James Hyde
Let me make absolutely clear that the only reason Jennifer Harris is no longer with the Lady Lions is because of her performance and attitude in relation to basketball.
Rene Portland
We will not succumb to any pressure in relation to people who have no entitlement to be released into the Australian community.
Philip Ruddock
The whole concept of the supremacy of the family unit in the Italian culture... That's all based on the relation of the mom and the children and the bambino.
Mario Batali
And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.
James Sung
It was a very volatile session. The Argentine market tried to a certain degree to arbitrage and adjust its prices with relation to other regional markets.
Miguel Daneri
As we look at the landscape for the next several years, we believe all objects will be networked. Everything will have a relation to the network. We believe that's what the future holds, and we also believe that only the service providers with the broadest reach will be able to support it.
Eric Shepcaro
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
Enid Bagnold
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Emil Nolde
A normal relation between the two countries instead of this Cold War mentality.
Elizardo Sanchez
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.
Earl Of Chesterfield
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